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Herbert Haseltine (1877-1962)Percheron Mare: Messaline and Foal parcel-gilt bronze with verdigris patina 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm.) high, on a 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm.) high black marble base Modeled circa 1922-24.FootnotesProvenance William W. and Jean W. Fetner, Dallas, acquired by 1992. By descent from the above to the present owner, son of the above, 2005. Literature Knoedler's Gallery, Herbert Haseltine An Exhibition of Sculpture of British Champion Animals, exhibition catalogue, London, 1925, p. 16, no. 5, another example illustrated. (as Percheron Mare: Messaline and Percheron Mare (and Foal): Messaline) Knoedler's Gallery, Herbert Haseltine Exhibition of Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, London, 1930, n.p., no. 4, another example illustrated. (as Percheron Mare (and Foal): Messaline) Herbert Haseltine to Preston Remington, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 1, 1933, Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, another example listed. Field Museum of Natural History, Herbert Haseltine Exhibition of Sculpture of British Champion Animals, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, 1934, n.p., nos. 5 and 6, another example illustrated. H. Devree, "Galleries," The New York Times, January 21, 1934, vol. LXXXIII, no. 27,756, sec. 10, p. 12X, another example illustrated. H. Haseltine, J.J. Cunningham, ed., American Sculptors Series: No. 7, Herbert Haseltine New York, 1948, pp. 8, 39, another example illustrated. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Herbert Haseltine Exhibition of Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore, 1951, p. 11, no. 21, another example listed. (as Percheron Mare (and Foal)) A.T. Gardner, "Sculpture Survey, 1872-1951," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, vol. X, no. 4, December 1951, p. 140, another example illustrated. (as Percheron Mare and Foal) A.T. Gardner, American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1965, p. 134-135, 190, no. 26.160.2, another example illustrated. (as Percheron Mare and Foal: Messaline) Graham Gallery, Herbert Haseltine 1877-1962: An Exhibition of Sculpture Presented as a Benefit for the National Museum of Racing, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., exhibition catalogue, New York, 1974, n.p., no. 26. (as Percheron Mare and Foal) The Queen's Museum, The Artist's Menagerie: Five Millenia of Animals in Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1974, no. 124, another example listed. Whitney Museum of American Art, 200 Years of American Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1976, pp. 140-41, fig. 199, another example illustrated. (as Percheron Mare and Foal) J. Conner, J. Rosenkranz, Rediscoveries in American Sculpture: Studio Works, 1893-1939, Austin, Texas, 1989, p. 48, 52, another example listed. M. Cormack, Champion Animals: Sculptures by Herbert Haseltine Richmond, Virginia, 1996, pp. 6, 36-41, another example illustrated. (as Percheron Mare: Messaline and Her Foal) T. Tolles, ed., D.J. Hassler, J.M. Marter, T. Tolles, J.L. Thompson, American Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Vollume II. A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1865 and 1885, vol. 2, New York, 2001, pp. 610, 612-13, 785, 787, no. 281, another example illustrated. Sladmore, The Horse: A Sculptural Icon, exhibition catalogue, London, 2021, pp. 28-29, no. 13, another example illustrated. Other examples of Herbert Haseltine's Percheron Mare: Messaline and Foal can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, National Sporting Library & Museum, Middleburg, Virginia, Museum of Fine Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Yale Center For British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, and Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Herbert Haseltine's Percheron Mare: Messaline and